Saturday, 11 June 2016

Why is BSP, Congress silent on Mathura clashes?: BJP

NEW DELHI: Attacking BSP and Congress on their "silence" over the
Mathura clashes, BJP today alleged that they were trying to save the
Samajwadi Party government in UP as because of their understanding to
help each other in the Rajya Sabha polls.

"It appears that
all these parties are trying to save the Samajwadi Party government...
Probably a reason is that in the Rajya Sabha polls, SP is supporting
Congress and BSP too is supporting it in some states," BJP spokesperson
Sudhanshu Trivedi said, referring to understanding among SP, BSP,
Congress and Ajit Singh-led RLD.

"Why are you silent?
Is it because the religion and caste of the killed is not of help in
fulfilling your political ambitions," he said at a press conference
here.

Trivedi said the silence of these parties is
as much to blame as the UP government. He also attacked Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the issue, saying he otherwise speaks on
all national and international issues but has maintained a surprising
silence on the violence.

Citing a sting shown by a private
channel to hit out at the Akhilesh Yadav government, he said it was left
with no face-saver now.
"It is clear now that what happened in Mathura was not due to negligence but part of a conspiracy," he said.
BJP alleged that sting has "exposed" the ruling party's collusion with Mathura's Jawahar Bagh encroachers.
The party also asked the state government to immediately recommend a CBI inquiry so that truth could come out.

"The
sting has exposed the Chief Minister and his government. He had blamed
officers for the violence. Now it has emerged that over 80 intelligence
inputs were sent to the government but it did not act because it was in
collusion with land mafia," BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma
claimed.

The sting operation purportedly showed intelligence
officials saying they had informed the state government about threats
posed by the well-armed encroachers, who were also part of a sect.

Dwivedi rejected the state government's decision to appoint a one-man commission as an attempt for "cover up".

He
said a senior state minister, who is also a member of the ruling
family, was part of the conspiracy behind this "institutional land
grabbing" by SP. BJP has earlier blamed Shivpal Yadav, Akhilesh's uncle
and a Cabinet minister, for the Mathura episode.